their shoes to the ice. the teens waited for hours in frigid temps while the younger brother used a cell phone to call for help. firefighters waded through the watter and got to the boys. they thanked the firefighters for saving them, even writing an apology letter. >> dear firefighters thank you for taking us back to safety. we're so sorry. >> i regret my choices and thank you for sacrificing. i think i can say for the three of us we'll never do it again. >> they won't be getting their cell phones away. that's the only reason they got rescued. xbox is probably going to be gone. >> i think xbox too. >> reporter: sandra endo, cnn. >> have an excellent wonderful

weekend. >> you too. erin burnette in "outfront" starts right now. up next, a top republican threatens to shut down the government if president obama won't negotiate on the debt ceiling. plus, after president obama one of our guests says the next president of the united states will be black. does it add up? >> and why one politician acruised of a crime was strip and beaten. we'll show it to you. let's go "outfront." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good friday evening, everyone. i'm erin burnette. "outfront" tonight, on the brink of battle. a threat from the government to shut down government if president obama refuses to tell gauche yat. president obama needs to take note of it and put forward a plan and note it immediately.

will those threats work? a senior democrat says if the republicans don't want to raise the debt ceiling it will be on their shoulders. >> risking government shutdown, risking not raszing the debt creeling is playing with fire. >> playing with fire. he's the former direct over the congressional republican office and beyond outrage what has gone wrong with our economy, our democracy and how to fix it. i show you have solutions to solve the crisis we all fear. let's start with you. in john corn anyoneyncornyn's s shut down the government, what kind of outcome is that? >> it's terrible. it's actually saying to the creditors of the united states we're not going to deliver on the full faith and credit of the united states, with ee going to default on our debt. republicans playeding this card once before in december 2011. it was very dangerous then. our debt was downgraded.

it is very dangerous now. >> right. and, of course, the problem is doug, i know you're probably more sympathetic but the reality is the money that's being raised to pay is money that's been borrowed and promised. it is the full faith and credit of the u.s. government. >> yeah. i think that's right. let's put the rhetoric aside and recognize that there is no fight about raising the debt ceiling. that's not in question. there isn't even really a fight about the need to control spending. anyone's who's in touch with the debt and budgetary spending knows that. that it would be a disservice not to fix those programs vanld them fall apart underneath their beneficiaries. the only real feet about is it. it's a legitimate one. it seems to me the best thing would be to get ahead of that and start work on those disagreements and that can happen one of two ways. the president could put forward some sort of proposals and not

wait till the 11th hour and do what we did before or it could go through the house and the senate, let the house pass something, let the senate pick it up gorks to the congress but let's start working on this problem. >> let me ask you this. newt gingrich warned fellow republicans you may want to get the spending cuts be u if you're going to use the debt ceilings and hold them hostage he says that is, quote/unquote, a dead loser. here he is. >> in the end gloirk what's going to happen. the whole financial system is going to come into washington by television and say, oh, my god, this would be a gigantic heart attack, the entire economy of the world will collapse and you guys can't be responsible and they'll cave. >> so are republicans making a strategic mistake using the debt ceiling as leverage since we all know they will end up having to raise it. >> they will have to raise it. the president will have to raise it and the debt creeling is not the problem.

the problem is the debt and the spending that's driving the debt. the number one thing is to avoid, a, the notion that speaker boehner can trot down to the white house and somehow we can solve the nation's problems or, b, that we want do this at the 11th hour at all. instead we want the president and our congress do their job. i for one believe in moments like this presidential leadership is an imperative. but the president doesn't want to put a plan out and he's shown no appetite for taking on the problem then the house should act. >> should the president be the one that comes out with a plan and say, look, i'm so sick of this petty, stupid, sand boxx unpleasantless rather than the word i would rather use. i'm sick of it and i'm going to put out, here's my plan. >> yes. the president has put out a plan. hi put out a plaen in 2011. he put out another plan in 2012. he's put out proposed spending cuts in the military. he's even come up with some very

controversial proposals for entitlement reform. the republicans have come up with their own ideas. there is a disagreement about those ideas. the problem right now is what is the wp of choice? that is in fact what the republicans are planning. think it's just irresponsible. i never agree with newt gingrich on anything but i'm going to agree with him on this. >> i don't understand what leverage is going to be enough? nothing. these guys don't seem to care. they still won't do it. >> i mean for the record it shouldn't require leverage. they should, in fact, do this because it's a problem for our nation. you know, with all due respect to bob, the president's proposals are to cut $365 billion out of entitlements over ten years and we're borrowing

over $100 billion a year. we receive the house pass their ideas. it's happened. the senate doesn't have to like them but they should take them up and provide some alternatives. that's never happened so we do have to change the way we do business and we do have to get proposals that are in the ballpark. >> thanks so much to both of you. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> still to come, one of our guests says the next president of the united states, the next one will be black. will it add up? >> plus, a saabdy relief package, a little one finally passed by the house and the senate. but a new jersey congresswoman saysite too little too late. and a hollywood actor took on starbucks and won. mcdreamy, otherwise known as pat dempsey comes "outfront." alli can help you lose one more by blocking some of the fat you eat. let's fight fat with alli. ♪ starts with arthritis pain and a choice.

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our second story out front. too little, too late. that's how it's being described, the $9 billion sandy relief. they want $60 billion. now, house speaker john boehner says there's going to be a vote on the remaining $51 billion. he says it's going to happen on january 15th but that's not good enough for representative pollone.

he's out front tonight. let's deal with the build bill that had to deal with the flood insurance. 67 people voted no for including paul ryan. he said washington shouldn't be creating new debt and it would be irresponsible without making necessary reforms. debt ceiling may be an on muss sign of the future. what's your response to that? the national flood insurance is in crisis. >> the point is people paid their premiums and now they suffered and have damage and now paul ryan and others are saying they shouldn't -- the claims shouldn't be paid. i mean it's ridiculous. if you paid for any kind of insurance and you found out they weren't going to pay the claim, what would you think? i mean that's essentially what they're saying. >> in terms of the vote today and what happens next, charlie rangel, a member of your party was celebrating. here he is. >> i think it's been a good day for congress and for the country. it reinforces the concept we've

had since the beginning of this nation that if any part of our country is affected by a disaster, that they can and should expect the rest of the country to come to the rescue. >> congressman pollone he said the sandy aid bill got messed up because of communications and there's no problems and it's going to move ahead and everything is fine. i i'm very concerned. as you know, speaker boehner made a commitment at the end of the congress that this whole package was going to come up and if it had come up it would have gotten the votes, be on the president's desk and we'd be rebuilding the shore. now we have to wait two or three weeks and the speaker has divided this up into three different votes wchl very to get a majority each time and go back to the senate where the bill had already passed before in the larger package. >> so you're worried that it will not be as easy as. >> no, i don't think so. remember, what happened today is the easiest thing.

essentially what they did today is extend the borrowing authority like the debt ceiling if you will. very few people are opposed to that because the people have already paid their premiums and they should collect. now we're talking about the actual money that would be used to rebuild the shore and i'm very concerned about that, and i don't think it should have been divided up. and, you know, you have basically these tea party republicans who don't want to spend any money. >> why, though, do you need the $51 billion? fema has given 1 preside$1.2 bi about. they say fee ha has plenty of money. fema is saying, look, we're okay. >> that money, erin, is just for the emergency. in other words, that was to help people pay for a motel, you know, for food and clothing in the few weeks after the storm. the rest of the money, the $60 billion package is for rebuilding. in other words, this is -- you know, this will give the sva

money to give out loans to businesses, so people can make grants to rebuild their homes. this will get -- this will be money for the army corps to put the beach restoration and a dune to protect the shore from the future. >> what happens to the rebuilding of homes? should we be giving money to people to rebuild in flood zone areas? if you as a homeowner cannot take on the full risk yourself should taxpayers ever be on the hook for that. >> again, a big part of this is to rebuild in a different way. if i can use sea bright as an example. they'll rebuild the district on pilings so if the storm comes again it won't be negatively impacted. so there's a lot in there that's very future-oriented in trying to rebuild in a way that will be protective of the future. >> congressman pollone, thank you very much for the time we'll be watching for that sandy vote

and when it happens and if it happens, of course, on january 15th. as i said, more superstorms are coming to the united states. sandy was the biggest hurricane and there will be bigger and bigger ones coming. which is why it's almost more frighten weg almost didn't know about san d's power until it was too late. a new documentary called "coming storms" shows exactly what happened. >> reporter: just a month before sandy, one of those key goes satellites that watches it goes down. >> it was enough uncertainty while we're still in hurricane season that we took the precaution to move the other satellite over. >> reporter: perhaps, some experts say, a foreshadowing. dr. kenneth tremberth says noaa got lucky. they had a backup satellite standing by. >> if there's a major failure of the satellites, that would be a major disaster indeed. we would be blinded in many

respects. we would not be able to see what's going on in the season as well as we can now. >> it's pretty amazing. there's some serious questions raised by "cnn presents." this sunday, "the coming storms." our own chad myers is "outfront" tonight. it shoes how bag things might be. what would happen if researchers didn't have that satellite? if you look at sandy on a mass scale the biggest storm we've ever seen. >> you have to understand when we talk about a forecast over the united states, we have all these weather balloons go up so we know where and how the wind is going, how fast, what direction. there are no balloons going up over the ocean. that satellite is our own eye to what the rinlds are doing, how the storm is progressing. and we have now, the weather service noaa has run, rerun the computer models without the satellite, without the polar

orbiting satellite data in and just 24 hours out, that forecast was still for it to miss the u.s. could you imagine with 23 hours' notice we'd have to yell at everybody there in new england and new york and new england, get out, get out, get out, here it comes because we didn't think it was coming but here it is, that's how tonight those satellites are. >> is this the risk we're facing in the future when you look at superstorm sandy? everybody says it's once in a century event. or is it. are we going to see a lot more storms like that when we don't know how big or where they are? >> here's the issue. we get once a century flood like every five years now. it's tremendous what our threshold of pain used to be. what we used to think of a 500-year this or 1,000-year this coming true much more often. humans are getting in the way. no question we're building cities along the coast. but we're also paving a lot of

the united states so it can't soak in, the water runs off making bigger floods. the problem with it now is there's so much more carbon dioxide in the air. it's proven there's more co 2, parts per million. that co 2 hoelsd in heat. that's proven. i don't care how you think it got there. i don't care. it got there. it's going to warm the air. warm the ocean. hurricane sandy in the ocean was on top of water that was 2 degrees warmer than it should have been. so hurricane sandy was a bigger storm than it should have been because it was basically halloween. the storm should not have been blowing up like it did, but the water was still warm and when that happens the potential is always there for it to get bigger. >> all right. thank you very much, chad myers. >> you're welcome. >> you can catch "cnn presents: the coming storms." right here. al gore, the biggest payday. he's rolling in it. he wouldn't have been if he was

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now our third story outfront. al gore's massive payday. so the former vp has sold a company to al jazeera and the price tag, half a million dollars. according to "the new york

times," the deal will give al gore 20%. al gore personally. you can do the management. $100 million payout. he co-formed it. it has struggling viewership. we have the inside story tonight. there's so many part oofs this that i find amazing, ironic, fascinating. let's start with the fact that al gore, winner of the nobel peace prize, known as an environmental guy company sold it, a government of qatar. built on oil wealth, the green problem and a country that has shown links to hardlined links to al qaeda. >> i think he did the deal because it was the best option he had. he wanted to sell this channel, he wanted to get it off his hands after nearly eight years of getting almost nowhere with it. in some cases it's declined over

time. that never happens in tv. but we saw him several months ago i want to sell it, i'm not sure to who and by the end of the day, he saw this was his only option. it's pretty clear al jazeera overpaid. >> they wanted to get access in the american market. the minute the deal is announced time warner cable says we're not going to air current anymore. what's going to happen here? i mean is this going to be a colossal failure? >> it's going require more than $500 million over time. they have homes like direct home, comcast. they've got a decent amount of the country, not nearly all of it. i think they're going to have to spend a lot of money on marketing and promotion and talent for the channel. if they want to compete with the likes of cnn and bbc, they're going to have to invest a lot

more money. >> first there's the irony of the oil well and the government that funds other things and the third, al gore, big democrat, wants to get this deal done on december 31st and there's a reason for that. >> new year's eve because the tax rates were over. they went up on new year's day. they were desperate to get it done. they told the distributors whose arms they were twifrting they wanted to get it done. unfortunately for al gore they didn't. they got done on wednesday. it's unclear how much he had to pay in taxes but we're talking a significant chunk of change. >> it could be somewhere around 8, $9 million. funny. why did it happen? if he wanted it done that badly and it was done the day off? was there a hiccup or some sort of problem? >> they haven't let me in. i've been surprised by the lack of access to figure out what's going on. maybe that's because it leaked out before they were ready to

talk about it. maybe because they haven't decided what to do with the current staff members. hosts like eliot spitzer, jennifer granholm, joy behar, not sure what's going to happen to them. it's a very strange way to see this channel sputter off after so many years. >> there's one thing i know. al gore is a richer man. >> he is. still to come, will our next president, not this one, the next one, i'm not making a mistake here, be black. one of our guests says yes but does it add up. plus the navy takes on bath salts with a disturbing new public service announcement. ur s will understand. oh no, it's actually my geico app...see? ...i just uh paid my bill. did you really? from the plane? yeah, i can manage my policy, get roadside assistance, pretty much access geico 24/7. sounds a little too good to be true sir. i'll believe that when pigs fly. ok, did she seriously just say that? geico. just click away with our free mobile app.

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welcome back to the second half of "outfront" on a friday night. we'll start with stories where we're focusing our reporting from the front lines and we'll begin with something we learned from washington. chuck hagel will likely bethe nominee for defense secretary. the white house has told some members of congress to expect the president to nominate hagel. they had resently said no decision had been made. it was thought of as controversial by some given his comment his e's made in the past relating to gays. thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets. they're calling for the release of prisoners who they say were

detained because they're sunni. we're told prime minister nuri a al ma waky. the new england compounding center, that's the company linked to the deadly outbreak as pinned some of the blame on their cleaning service. in an s.e.c. filing they got a letter saying they take legal responsibility for the claims related to the meningitis outbreak but they say they only provided 90-minute cleaning sessions for necc wasn't a month so the claims are without marriage. united states add 155,000 jobs in december, enough to keep up with population growth. the unemployment rate held firm at 7.8%. the economists we spoke to talked about increases in hourly rates. those are good signs. if those go up, you theoretically need to hire new people.

it's been 519 days since this country lost its top credit rating. what do we do to get it back? today there was job days ta and the s&p 500 responded closing at its highest level since 2007. and get ready for the second black president. not our theory but buzzfeed's ben smith. african-americans represent a vital voting bloc in democratic primaries and they, like most ethnic groups, typically rally around the favorite son or daughter. "outfront" tonight ben smith and salam and roland martin. great to see all of you. you've got african-americans. they like other ethnic groups may be loyal to a person but they're still a small voting group. >> we're talking south carolina, 55%. i mean really the thing -- the core of the argument is they

expect things to be different. the house republicans screwed up last week, they'll screw up this week. it's a repetitive business and obama showed this clear path through a democratic primary process and i think they're going to be two very strong african-american candidates probably looking at 2016 and who see they have a path. >> who are they? >> i mean the two who come to my mind are deval patrick, sort of classic insider with credentials. and then cory booker, the mayor of newark who is kind of in terms of his persona is a super mayor. he has the kind of access to the national media and fund-raiser that you need and it looks like he's running for senate. >> you know, roland, i always love that you say what you think. last night when you saw ben's giemt you tweeted, quote, your theory is insane. ain't going to happen. of the two, he's more plausible

than booker. won't happen. >> first ofll if you examine in terms of this whole notion, in 1992, virginia governor douglas wilder, short-lived run for president. al sharpton ran in 2004 along with former senator. it's not like black folks ran behind their cam paint although president obama was elected in 2008 and re-elected in 2012. you can't assume that african-american voters are going jump behind anybody who's running. david dinkins, first black mayor of new york. still the first black mayer. lee brown, first black mayor of houston. he estill the first black mayor. you have examples of what you had first and you did not have successors follow them for a variety of reasons. >> a variety of reasons and certainly it would depend on

president obama being a two-term president. nobody's going to elect a democrat if his term is a disaster but we're not talking carol moseley braun or al sharpton. we're talking about people with star power and qualifications. what president obama showed is all else being equal -- >> they're very obamaesque both of them. >> let me remind you. she was a former senator. it's not enough to say just because you're black you're going to automatically get the same kind of support and let me also say something that people don't want to deal african-amer structu structure, there's still this belief what do you get from having somebody. you're going to see white democrats play a different role. >> but sure. that infrastructure that did not like barack obama was not able to stop him. >> actually. actually it did, ben. >> what else are we missing?

>> not thing to keep in mind, barack obama was. just the candidate of african merges as ben noted his article. he was also the candidate of upscale college-educated white liberal voters and the thing is in a democratic white primary right now, if you get both of those constituencies, you have a very formidable voting block. when you look at a lot of these other attendants, people look at hillary clinton by virtue of being a clinton would get the popular vote. so that's the other piece. that's the complicating story with ben's story. if you have a woman who's running as well, that's another powerful identity politics play that could con fwuz the picture, versus candidates like booker and a candidate like patrick. remember that barack obama in his 2000 run for congress he ran against an african-american from the south side of chicago who said that barack obama wasn't really authentic and he didn't

have an authentic tie. cory booker also has that. they have potential liabilities as well. >> we're making a huge mistake and that is governor de deval patrick is a governor. i have been saying mayor cory booker would l be president one day. you're putting cart before the horse. he's the mayor of new york. he hasn't won the u.s. senate state. he has. gotten there. you're not going to see a mayor go to the oval office. let cory do his current job. they have been foisting these sort of -- these sort of hype on him for a decade now. my deal is focus on your john now because if you keep planning for that next job unite mott get the senate job. >> let me ask you something else you write. you go beyond saying the next president would be black. you actually go and say something else. i'll quote you here. the romney/ryan debacle probably

presented one thing. the republican party will probably never present with two white men on the ticket. >> i think the republican party -- in the ways you saw in the popularity of herman cain who came out of nowhere, they're desperate to have a party that looks like america and have leadership that looks american. and they have a handful of extremely strong candidates who aren't white. i think that party's leadership and its rank and file are very ee bar to break out of this pattern as well. >> what about hillary? when you talk about a female kaerjts four years ago when she ran, everyone thought, you know, she would be the one that would get the nomination and she didn't. a lot ohm people say it was because she was a woman and people had a bias and a perception. now what? now they say hillary is the one everybody loves. hillary is not just a woman. any other woman who isn't so well known and gone through this fire might just be dismissed.

>> it's tricky. one of the interesting things about hillary clinton is she's not as dis-liked by republicans as you like, that's partly because she's familiar figure that's been around for a long time. so in that sense she has a unique advantage but you have a small cad ray of women. these are -- >> oh, my god, half the country would be moving to russia. >> >> she's a progressive fire brand that wins supporter. there are going to be women who are part of this process and there are a lot. >> thanks very much to all three of you. and why did i say everyone move to russia and not canada? you'll find out later in the program. it's with purposeful choice. . a horrible story here because there's dramatic public service

announcement by the american navy warning about the dangers of this sign of drug. our pentagon correspondent chris lawrence is "outfront." >> reporter: it's a shocking video in which an actor plays an american sailor high on bath salts. he sees other sailors as demons, punches his girlfriend and gets wielded into the e.r., pinned down by paramedics. >> bath salts not only will jack up your family and your career. it will jack up your mind and your body too? the navy is increasing efforts to warn sailors after military doctors started seeing more cases. these bath salts don't have anything do with therapy like the salts you do at home. >> what we talk about are very potent synthetic drugs that are probably synthesized somewhere overseas, possibly china.

>> this doctor has seen dozens of cases first hand. >> people act very pry mall, pry mall instincts. >> he's seen people who think they have super human strength and will almost impossible to do. >> we see rips out, the taser wires, they're impervious to pain. don't really feel anything. >> why are battle salts popular with troops? they're sold under catchy names like bolivian bath or vanilla sky. a path only costs $25. >> it's sometimes cheaper than other drugs on the street. it's readily avail snoobl you can inject or snort it, smoke it, or swallow. and it doesn't pop positive on a normal urinalysis. in 2011 an army sergeant killed himself, his wife, and young son while he was high on bath salts. the navel academy kicked someone

out for use of spice. it's hard to keep up with the science. >> all the drug dealers, the chemists have to do is manipulate the molecule ever so slightly. you have a new drug, a new chemical that kind of flies under the radar. >> in fact, since they banned the chemical, another chemical called nafarone started showing up and it's ten tiemts as potent as cocaine. it can't be detected during normal urinalysis but just this week they started testifying sailors and marines specifically for the drug. chris lawrence, cnn, the pentagon. and still to come, actor patrick dempsey says he took on starbucks and won. he comes "outfront" and tells the story. and vladimir putin adding another star to his collection. is it mcdreamy? no fear. we'll have the answer.

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and we're back with tonight's outer circle where we reach out to our sources around the world, and tonight we want go to india because the boyfriend of the woman who died after being brutally gang raped in new delhi is speaking out for the first time and he told reuters, i'll quote him, the men tried to run over us we had no clothes. we waited there hoping someone would help us. lawmakers are proposing new measures to try to deal with sexual violence against women in india but people in one village

are not waiting. they've taken the matter into thei own hands. >> reporter: indian women fighting back, beating a local politician, ripping off his shirt. he was staying in the village in northern india when he allegedly rape add local woman in the middle of the night. the politician's vehicle is not spared either. dioped with the world gunda, meaning goon. the woman, a middle-aged mother of two, the accused now under arrest and soon to be charged according to local police. his party leaders disowning him. >> translator: we condemn such kind of incidents and if he's found guilty, then the law will take its own course. >> reporter: such stories would have gone unnoticed especially in rural yanld where rape is commonplace and the stigma surrounding sexual assault dissuades victims from reporting rape cases. but now what was taboo in india is on the front pages and leading tv news.

and the evidence is shocking. a 19-year-old girl set herself on fire after being harassed by a neighbor for years. she died in hospital friday. a woman jumped off a moving train after two soldiers allegedly tried to molest her. india is vague on sex crimes but charges such as outraging or insulting the modesty of women. now will are demands for complete overhaul of the legal framework. the watershed moment, the brutal gang rape of a medical student in new delhi last month. stirring unprecedented public outrage. >> the best to remember is how each one of us here can work to make sure that this never happens again. the entire country is watching us with great expectations. we cannot fail their hopes. i think we need to set the agenda here with two words, zero

tolerance. >> reporter: the minister has called for more female police officers, a help line has been set up and one stat plans a public website with details of all convicted rapists. the big question now, whether all the promises will become a reality and help the women become more secure. >> now we go to birmingham, england, where mulally moussa fie has been released. we're following mullah la and i asked him what's next. >> she'll be convalescing at first in their new home in birmingham, england. still she continues to receive treatment and therapy as an outpatient. they say although she's being discharged now, she'll have to be readmitted at the end of this month, beginning of february for reconstructive surgery on her skull which was, of course, shattered when she was shot at

point blafrmg range in the head by taliban men last october. so really great to see these latest pictures of malala walking out of hospital, but these are just first steps aloorng what is likely to be a very long road toward recovery. aaron. >> i love that sweet little wave that she gave. let's check in with sanjay gupta. he's in for anderson cooper. >> we're keeping them honor effort ahead on the program with new information, explosive allegations that are exclusive to 360 about what really happened in steubenville, ohio, the night that two high school football players allegedly did the unthinkable to a very drunk 16-year-old allegedly raping her at several parties. you're going to hear it first on 360 and you're going to hear from both attorneys. also ahead a 360 follow. we've been following the case of baby veronica for months now. today the supreme court decided it was also they're also interested, hearing

the case and deciding who get to raise the little girl, either her adoptive parents or her father who is a member of the cherokee nation. and the ridiculist of 2012, all of it at the top of the hour. >> our big story out front, big dreamy verses the mermaid. he said he's now the proud owner of a small seattle-based coffee chain. starbucks, the coffee giant, came in with the mermaid logo. they said not so fast. who is the new owner of tully's coffee. the owner? patrick dempsey. it took this to get you on the show, but we're excited to have you. why did you want to do this? why buy a coffee chain? >> tully's is a beloved brand here. there's such a loyal following between the workers and customers that it just felt right and it came together in many ways quite easily.

and it's really exciting to be a part of this movement, really. and it was a brand that needed to be preserved. there were 500 jobs at stake. and you know, it just felt right. and i'm really excited about this. we had a great day today going around to all of the different stores and meeting the managers and the employees and the customers, and you find the passion behind this brand and this coffee company is really quite exciting. >> it was funny. you tweeted out last night, it caught everyone's attention, your tweet, we met the green monster, looked her in the eye, and she blinked. we got it, thank you seattle. obviously talking about the mermaid. >> yes. this was a company that wanted to bury this company and to put 500 people out of work. and it was a very emotional 13 hours in the room to try to get this company and to save these jobs. and it was a very long battle. >> now, let me ask you a little

bit about that. starbucks says to us that, you know, if they were to win the auction, and it's going to be decided formally in court in a few days, but they would allow everyone who works at tully's to go ahead and reapply. they also say their offer was $10.6 million, which they say is higher than yours at $9.2 million so are you sure this is really done? that you're going to be the new owner? >> i am, i really am. i think they're not really accurate in what they're saying, but there were ten people there making a decision, and we were the best bidder, and i think they made the right decision. >> and so let me ask you about sort of again a little more about why you did this. you love the brand and you wanted to get involved there, but why seattle? why do this? i know you're into a lot of different things. you have racing, car racing. you're a guy with a lot of different interests, but why this, why now, and why seattle? >> well, it presented itself to me. i thought it was a great

opportunity. i love seattle. i like this town very much, as you know, i grew up in a small town in maine. the pacific northwest reminds me a lot of maine. i have a strong connection here. i think a lot of it has to do with the show, and when i'm on the stage shooting "grey's anatomy" i see images of seattle all the time. to be here in the studio is where we have the hospital at seattle grace. >> oh, really? >> oddly enough, i have a strange connection here, and i feel very comfortable here. and the way this has unfolded, it just seems to be the right thing to do. and even the connection with the customers and the employees and tully's has been a very quick but very exciting, and there's a great passion with all of this. >> so are you going to be spending more time up in seattle? >> oh, yeah, i think it's very important to be involved in the management of this company and turning it around. there's a lot of work we need to do, cleaning it up and getting some stability in this company. just giving us a strong

foundation. certainly looking internationally and to expand over there, but to keep what we have going here and to stabilize that. there's a lot of work to do, and i like that challenge. and certainly, i'm in show business, it is a business, and this is one more extension of doing business, which i love doing. >> thank you so much. really appreciate you taking the time, and good luck to you. >> thank you very much. >> "outfront" next, vladimir putin about to add another major movie star to his collection. they're flocking to him. we'll tell you who it is. or you could watch the earnings report and take notes, like we're supposed to. so... can i get it? yeah. okay either of you put together the earnings report? yes, me totally. why don't you tackle the next quarter while we go to lunch. pu pu platter? yup! keep up the good work. i will keep up the good work. do more with the new samsung galaxy note ii. for a limited time get two flipcovers for the price of one. exclusively at verizon.

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yesterday, we brought you a story about the french actor gerard depardieu. he was frustrated with france's high tax rates and thought they could go higher, so he announced he is giving up his french citizensh shiship and is going e somewhere else. right now, it appears russia is the most likely destination, but he's not the only one. today, another french star has announced she is going to do exactly the same thing. legendary actress bridget bardo has announced she's considering moving to russia if putin is willing to give her citizenship. unlike depardieu, she's leaving over animals. a french court has ordered that two circus elephants being euthanized due to fears they're carrying